The cousin of Samwel Uko is providing further detail as to what happened in the hours leading up to the 20-year-old’s death, saying the health-care system failed him.
Ginawi Ginawi said he brought Uko to the Regina General Hospital’s emergency room in the early morning of May 21, the day he died.
Ginawi attempted to go into the hospital with Uko, but was denied entry due COVID-19 policies. Uko’s body was discovered in Wascana Lake later that night. “I think the hospital failed him.
He was really ill and anytime I would sit with him I could see that his mind wasn’t there,” Ginawi said. “He couldn’t speak for himself because he didn’t know what he was saying.